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Old 18-04-2011, 08:46 PM   #1
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Angry Some ******** hit my car and took off

Went to the beach yesterday afternoon. Got back to the car later that day to find damage to the drivers door. A good samaritan left a note on my windcreen with the details of the who hit my car but they didn't leave any contact details. Went to the police who then visted the alleged offender and they claimed they didn't do it. What can I do? %$#& I am ****ed off.

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Old 18-04-2011, 08:47 PM   #2
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Old 18-04-2011, 08:50 PM   #3
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go to your insurance company with the details, they can send them a letter demanding that they bring in the car for an inspection to prove it wasnt involved. if he doesnt they can then take it to the police. had a simular thing happen last year
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Old 18-04-2011, 08:51 PM   #4
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Does the vehicle details and colour etc match up? ie did the note say XYZ Maker, Model, Rego and colour. Or Rego only? Can you tell the colour of the vehicle that hit from the marks? Did the cops look at the suspected car?

Good luck with it mate. Poor form by the person.
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Old 18-04-2011, 08:51 PM   #5
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Did your unidentified witness write down the time?
Pitty you didn't see the incident yourself from a distance and wrote down the license plate number...
(if ya know what i mean...)
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Old 18-04-2011, 08:57 PM   #6
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Went to the beach yesterday afternoon. Got back to the car later that day to find damage to the drivers door. A good samaritan left a note on my windcreen with the details of the who hit my car but they didn't leave any contact details. Went to the police who then visted the alleged offender and they claimed they didn't do it. What can I do? %$#& I am ****ed off.
What?

Someone refuses to identify themselves and prefers to remain totally anonymous rather than standing up for their actions?
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Old 18-04-2011, 08:58 PM   #7
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Mate I had an eyewitness and CCTV footage, although the CCTV footage didn't show the licence plate.

Cops went to his place and he said it wasn't him.

End of story.

I complained to the Police Minister.

Two months later they reopened the case, by now the incident was more than 6 months old and the statute of limitations applied (6 months in NSW, 12 months in some other states)

Insurance company wouldn't do anything because the Police took no action.

I went to the local court and filled out the papers, paid $80 fee, plus $35 for Sheriff to serve the papers.

The guy coughed up the money straight away.

If it ever happens again and the Police won't do anything, I'd fill in the court papers straight away. Getting a legal document served on them by the Sheriff really sorts them out.

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Old 18-04-2011, 10:00 PM   #8
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Can feel your pain someone backed into the rear of mine out the front of a busy coffee shop though no-one left a note and no one said anything smashed my rear spoiler, dented and scratched my boot.
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Old 18-04-2011, 10:14 PM   #9
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Can feel your pain someone backed into the rear of mine out the front of a busy coffee shop though no-one left a note and no one said anything smashed my rear spoiler, dented and scratched my boot.
Same thing happened to me, no note, just left me to pay the excess to get repaired.
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Old 18-04-2011, 11:25 PM   #10
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The worst part is that the same people that that hit people's cars and drive off would be the first people to whinge like stuck pigs if anybody did the same to them...
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Old 18-04-2011, 11:30 PM   #11
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The note said it was a van which hit my car and the rego is RYG263.
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Old 19-04-2011, 12:04 AM   #12
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thats bad luck mate , its very disheartening when you look after your gear and someone damages it and does`nt do the right thing, just the other day i was in meadowfair shopping centre car park, (i usually avoid the place like the plague) i`m on my way up one of the isles on my way out, there`s a shiela in a little car coming the opposite way and she`s veering towards me.............i`m thinking she`s cutting in close to me so she can get a swing in the empty parking spot behind me, bam the dopey cow on a mobile phone slammed into my mirror , it folded my mirror up against the door and scratched it , the damage was minor , but the inconsiderate dopey halfwitted moronic cow did`nt even stop to apologise or anything, she kept right on going, where do these scumbags come from? do you think it will take much to repair your door? i suspect you will have to wear the damage without a confession or the witness details, good luck with it.
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Old 19-04-2011, 03:14 AM   #13
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People lack the backbone to take responsibility for their actions.
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Old 19-04-2011, 03:29 AM   #14
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The note said it was a van which hit my car and the rego is RYG263.
Just be wary that the person who left the note is not in fact the person who hit your car. It has happened before where someone hits your car and writes a note so that nobody thinks the wiser, except that in the note they blame it on someone else.......
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Old 19-04-2011, 11:46 PM   #15
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If it ever happens again and the Police won't do anything, I'd fill in the court papers straight away. Getting a legal document served on them by the Sheriff really sorts them out.

PM me if you want to know how to do this stuff, it's pretty easy.
My mum did that but ended up out of pocket with lawyer and all the other fees. The other party fled to Tasmania and her mother refused to answer the door apart from yelling expletives from the door. No money ever received. Police even refused to give a drug test at the crash scene even though the driver was clearly affected by something.

Sometimes it makes you wish that the registration fee included 3rd party insurance too.
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Old 20-04-2011, 12:20 AM   #16
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Someone hit the rear drivers side quarter on my 7 week old Ranger XLT when it was parked in a parallel park, no note, nothing, I am feeling your pain

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Old 20-04-2011, 12:29 AM   #17
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i got side swiped last year.
luckily only damage to my drivers side mirror.

crowded street. (freakin federal election day).. no note of any kind.
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